Famous People with Name Morris

Morris Hiram "Red" Badgro            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morris Hiram "Red" Badgro: was a professional American football end in the NFL for the New York Yankees, New York Giants, and the Brooklyn Dodgers. He graduated from the University of Southern California.

Morris Abraham Schapiro            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morris Abraham Schapiro: was an American investment banker and chess master.In New York, he took 3rd, behind Dawid Janowski and Roy Turnbull Black, in 1920, twice won Manhattan CC championship in 1921 and 1922,[2] and took 9th in 1923 (Oscar Chajes won). Schapiro won a match agai

Morris Cole Graves            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morris Cole Graves: was an American expressionist painter. Along with Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, William Cumming, and Mark Tobey, he founded the Northwest School.After graduating high school in 1932 in Beaumont, Texas at the urging of his aunt, Graves returned to the Northwest. He spent much of his professional life in Seattle and La Conner, Washington, sharing a studio for a while with Guy Anderson. Graves' early work was in oils and focused on birds touched with strangeness, either blind, or wounded, or immobilized in webs of light.[2]

Morris Louis Bernstein            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morris Louis Bernstein: a United States abstract expressionist painter, one of the many such painters to emerge in the 1950s. From 1929 to 1933, he studied at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts (now Maryland Institute College of Art) on a scholarship, but left shortly before completing the program. He worked at various odd jobs to support himself while painting and in 1935 was president of the Baltimore Artists’ Association. From 1936 to 1940, he lived in New York and worked in the easel division of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project. During this period, he knew Arshile Gorky, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jack Tworkov. He also dropped his last name.

Morris Halle,            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morris Halle,: a Latvian-American Jewish linguist and an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Liepaja, Latvia, in 1923, and moved with his family to Riga in 1929. They arrived in the United States in 1940.From 1941 to 1943, Halle studied engineering at the City College of New York. He entered the United States Army in 1943 and was discharged in 1946, at which point he went to the University of Chicago, where he got his master's degree in linguistics in 1948. He then studied at Columbia University under Roman Jakobson, became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951, and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1955. He retired from MIT in 1996, but he remains active in research and publication. He is fluent in German, Yiddish, Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and English.

Eugene "Mercury" Morris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Eugene "Mercury" Morris: is a former American football player who played running back in the American Football League in the 1960s and the NFL in the 1970s. He played in three Super Bowls. Morris was selected for three Pro Bowls over his nine-year professional career.

Jon Morris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jon Morris: a former American football running back in the National Football League who played for the New York Giants from 1982 to 1988. Initially noted for his diminutive stature — 5' 7", Morris was a key member of the Giants team that won Super Bowl XXI in 1987. He rushed for 67 yards, caught 4 passes for 20 yards, and scored a touchdown in the game.

Robert Morris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Morris: an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He is regarded as one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd but he has also made important contributions to the development of performance art, land art, the Process Art movement and installation art.Morris studied at the University of Kansas, Kansas City Art Institute, and Reed College [1]. Initially a painter Morris’ work of the 1950s while studying and living in San Francisco was influenced by Abstract Expressionism and particularly Jackson Pollock. In California Morris also came into contact with the work of La Monte Young and John Cage.

Christopher Morris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Christopher Morris: is an American photojournalist, best known for his war photographs.Most of Morris' work has concentrated on war. Some of the wars he photographed were the US invasion of Iraq, the drug war in Colombia, the Persian Gulf war, the wars in Afghanistan, Somalia, Yugoslavia, and Chechnya - more than 18 foreign conflicts. He documented the presidency of George W. Bush for Time, and is a founding member of the VII Photo Agency.

Jason Newth Morris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jason Newth Morris: is an American judoka, best known for having won the silver medal in the -78 kilo weight category in the 1992 Summer Olympics. However, this was just one of many highlights in a 6 year competitive career that included 7 gold medals in international-level